Staff Backend Engineer: Architect & Lead, Ruby on Rails

Cleo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health insurance

Sabbatical after four years

Pension/retirement contributions

Learning & development platform

Location-specific leave entitlements

Job summary

Cleo in London is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its Financial Assistant Pillar. You\'ll shape technical direction across multiple functional product squads and stay hands-on with Rails APIs, data models, and scalable services.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with senior peers, and drive delivery that improves users\' financial health while building reusable patterns across the engineering organization.

Qualifications

• Lead multi-team initiatives and define scalable backend architecture.
• Hands-on development with Rails APIs and data models.
• Mentor engineers and tech leads to elevate technical capabilities.
• Influence technical strategy and align squads around a common direction.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture and drive delivery across product squads.
• Ship ambitious product work that improves users' financial health.
• Build shared systems and tooling to raise engineering standards.
• Stay hands-on in Rails monolith with scalable services and APIs.
• Mentor engineers and TLs to grow the next generation of leaders.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Architectural direction

Mentoring

Leadership

System design

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Python

Job description

Cleo in London is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer for its Financial Assistant Pillar. You\'ll shape technical direction across multiple functional product squads and stay hands-on with Rails APIs, data models, and scalable services.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with senior peers, and drive delivery that improves users\' financial health while building reusable patterns across the engineering organization.